27 Responses to “Thoughts and prayers directed to CT”

What do you expect? The government gathers children together in public schools and then pretends that they’re safe, because it’s cheaper to pretend.
Teachers are going to have to share their great, big fat piece of the educational pie with security guards, and whether they like it or not – armed security guards, and they won’t like it, but it needs to be done that way, because that’s the only way that works.

The political left is full of itself and the “reasonableness” of gun control upon this occasion. I say, “Fuck You!” and my rights I’ll be keeping for myself, despite some knackered individual, and the opportunistic left. Time to be sporting with them, eh?

Hey Chas. Starting pay for teachers is $30k a year. Does that sound like a great big fat piece of pie to you?

I went $65k into debt to become a teacher. My first two years of teaching are basically going to be done for free. I could make more money in fast food but I want the world to be better than the way I found it.

And while we’re at it. Not all teachers are liberals. I’m certainly not and I’m an avid shooter on top of it so you can all get that stereotype out of your head right now.

There where failures on multiple levels here. The bad guy went completely unchallenged once he reached the school. That should never happen anywhere. Armed security would be good. That way the shooters can focus on them first.

Better would be to arm the teachers too. Oh, and Kevlar for all staff who choose to wear it.

That’s the exception and not the rule. The absurdly generous benefits and job security more than compensate.

Why are we letting mental patients like this monster and the Batman movie theater murderer and the loon who shot Gabby Giffords roam free?

Lock them up or euthanize them. They can’t be cured and they are a waste of resources that could be better spent on patients that pose less risk to society. And yes, I will volunteer my time to handle either task.

So many people turning away from God and Church is the reason people are losing their damn minds. Whether someone believes in God or not, religion gives people a moral compass and the promise of a reward for living a good life. Atheism doesn’t. As silly as the concept of a big man in the sky is to Atheists, at least it gives people something to believe in and a community to be a part of.

The solution is simple. We need to hire armed police at every school. Of course we need to make sure that they are good people who love kids. They should also be trained in some forms of education and maybe they can teach classes.

*Mom and Dad divorced.
*Mom ignores the fact her younger son is mentally unbalanced (usually part of the whole “I want to be the fun parent” dynamic that occurs between divorced parents)
*Mom ILLEGALLY straw buys guns for the 20 year mentally unbalanced son continuing the “I want to be the fun parent” thing)
*Innocent people die.

@ Jeff from DC: What a load of crap. That so-called “moral compass” you think religion gives you has “given” loads of sick psychopaths the “right” to murder, rape, humiliate and disparage countless innocents over the centuries thanks to a false sense of self-righteousness. It’s egotism, squared and cubed, nothing more. As an avowed atheist, my moral compass guides me to follow the Golden Rule, which is what religious folks claim to follow, but rarely (if ever) do. Don’t knock the rational rest of us for your own character flaws.

The reason no one was there to stop this guy was by federal law. It is illegal to carry a firearm within 1000 feet of a school creating a federally designated gun-free school zone.

It is illegal for anyone not an on-duty law enforcement officer or school security guard to discharge a firearm on public property in a federally designated gun-free school zone in self defense or defense of others. That’s 5-yrs in prison for acting to stop the imminent threat.

Did not expect a shit storm on here from this incident…
I realize that this was a very emotional incident due to the number of children killed, but this does not give you guys the excuse to be assholes.

A little perspective on all of this:http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
Divide the accidents number by 365 and you will realize about 320 people have their lives cut short every day in the US due to an accident.

This incident was sad and terrible, but it was just a blip in the greater scheme of things.

@ JKB: You’re mostly right – there is an exemption in the carry restrictions for people with a CCW permit issued by that state. HOWEVER, you are correct that there is NO such exemption in the part that prohibits discharging said firearm, even in cases of clear and unquestionable self-defense.

I’ve paid attention to this because I live well within 1000′ of a school. It is entirely possible for me to be in a situation where if I take a single step to the right to avoid an attacker before firing I’m okay, but if I take that same single step to the left instead firing would be a federal felony. One direction stepping further onto my property (or a neighbor’s), the other direction stepping off the curb onto the street.